Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-01-07

kind. The deficiency in this respect
has led the management To- omit giving
a list of the characters represented.
At the annu election If the Meth
o,list Sunday school, held last Wcdncs-
day evening, the following officers
wcr'' chosen: Superintcnd, mt, Gurdun
Henry: Assistant >upt., Mr.. }. L.
Bratnrv; Secretary. Ellis Big.low;
Tr, -ur"r. Peter C,.kran: Librarian.
Robert Anderson; Assistant Llhrar-
ian, Clayton Aldridge; ChoriSter, John
Corkish; Organist, Mrs. May Weston.
Mr. +. q. Rcams, l.. :. Po>totlcc In
srcctor, WAS here a few days ago, to as
certain the advisahility of granting
the request for a temporary change OF
the Muntesano mail route from the
river To the Hicklin mountain road.
1t is almost impossible to get through
the former with horses, in the depths
of Winter, much less the heavy
stages that sink to the axle i'll mud.
There is but little doubt but that the
change will be authorized.
\ committee will canvas the town
next week for subscriptions to a fund
for purchase OF site for Il hospital
to be erected and managed by the Sis
tiers OF Charity in this place. En-
couraging words have been uttered,
and now an opportunity will be af-
forded for decisive acts. The hospital
at Seattle, under the same auspices,
cxpends $4,000 annually for supplies,
besides being great convenience to
the public. There is no reason why an
equally good showing could not be
made by similar institution here, and
this movement is one Of the aids which
will speedily result in much public
benefit soon as it is established.
1t seems that the efforts of the
Olympia and Chehalis Valley Rail
road Co. to secure the loan of $780,
GOO for the extension of their road to
their coal mine and building bunkers
at some point on Budd's Inlet, have
not yet been successful, and that the
Eastern capitalist who WAS to furnish
part of the money still insists that the
mortgage to the county securing the
operation of daily trains over the road,
shall be cancelled before the bonds
can be negotiated. The company are
prepared to give other and ample
security to cover this requirement, if
the county will remove this obstruc-
ton to the consummation of their
plans. There is but one sentiment in
the community, and that is to afford
the company all the aid possible for
the prosecution of a work that will re-
dound in SO much benefit to the pub
lie. A petition is in circulation ask
ing the County Commissioners to call
II public meeting at an early day, at
which the matter can be thoroughly
discussed with view of adjusting the
difficulty.
The custom of making calls on New
Years day has fallen into noxious dis
suitude, and very properly, too, when
the round of calls usually ended in
the callers being full of something
else besides wit, and going on Fool
ofataire." An innovation has been
introduced this year, however, which
seems little better than making wine
cask of the stomach, and that is, us
ing the outside of the body for all
sorts of grotesque concentrations, in
gilt and bronze. Late Saturday night
many OF our citizens might have been
seen staggering under the weight of
gilded clothes-pins, potato-mashers,
rolling-pins, stars and horse-shoes,
stuck all over their arms and should
ers and standing on in bold relief like
the " fretful quilts of a porcupine."
What they meant, nobody seemed
qualified to explain, but it must be
admitted that in some instances a sat
irist might have found sentiment
not exactly complimentary to the re-
cipient of those unique gifts. A gilt
edged flap-jack might not be an map
propriate medal for the originator of
the custom.